Print out the following pages to make a one-month moon phases calendar. You can observe and draw the phases of the moon for a single month or for the entire year.

Month

Number of Days

January

31

February

28 (29 in leap years, like 2008)

March

31

April

30

May

31

June

30

July

31

August

31

September

30

October

31

November

30

December

31

Instructions:

Print out the month(s) you need.

Have the student write the name of the month and year on the page.

Determine on which day the month starts, and start your numbering on that day. For example, January, 2006, starts on a Sunday.

Then find out how many days are in that month (see the table to the right). Remember the rhyme, "Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November. All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone, and it has twenty-eight days time, but in leap years, February has twenty-nine."

Each night, observe the moon and draw that moon phase on the calendar on the correct date.